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HO USE & GARDEN 
Marvel and Thomas Lax- 
ton among the real early 
kinds with Alderman and 
Potlach. Alderman is a 
very fine strain of the 
popular telephone pea, 
with vines 5' tall. In sev¬ 
enty-five days from date 
of planting it will reward 
you with five quarts of 
fine A/ 2 " pods from ev¬ 
ery 15' of row, and the 
same space will yield three 
to four additional quarts 
ten days later, when Pot¬ 
lach yields its first crop. 
Potlach peas are among 
the finest late sorts in culti¬ 
vation today. They are a 
great improvement over old 
Stratagem, which they 
somewhat resemble in char¬ 
acter of vines and shape of 
pods. Potlach grows from 
24" to 30" high on good soil, and the vines should be supported 
since they are simply loaded with handsome 4" pods which 
are usually well filled with seven to eight large dark green 
peas of superb quality. Two 15' rows yielded eighteen quarts 
of pods for us the past season. 
On the left is shown New Kid¬ 
ney Wax; on the right. Boun¬ 
tiful Green Pod 
Lettuce And Radishes 
Among the lettuces I am tempted to call California Cream 
Butter the best sort for early summer. When Wayahead, 
Tenderheart and other early heading varieties have seen their 
days, this variety glories in perfecting handsome, solid heads, 
8" to 10" in diameter. California Cream Butter is at its best 
seventy-five days from date seeds were sown, and it stays in 
fit condition until All Seasons among the butter-heads, and 
Iceberg among the crisp-heads, furnish a logical succession. 
These two sorts are in a class of their own for heat resistance. 
Both make large plants 10" to 12" in diameter, form large, 
solid heads and stay in prime condition throughout August 
when even old, reliable California Cream Butter “bolts.” 
If you want radishes during July and August you have to 
plant the slower growing, firmer fleshed summer sorts. After 
the end of May do not sow the early spring sorts which get 
pithy with the approach of hot weather. Put in Chartiers, 
Ladyfinger and Strasburg, three long kinds which produce roots 
fit for use in the order mentioned and will provide your table 
satisfactorily throughout July, August and early September. 
I 
Golden Bantam and Kendel's 
Early Giant, two varieties of 
proved merit 
absolutely stringless character. 
Among bush beans we 
find a bewildering number 
of varieties, differing prin¬ 
cipally in color, shape and 
season of maturity. There 
are green-podded sorts of 
early and late maturity. 
While there are nearly a 
score of pedigreed sorts at 
our disposal, all of which 
are of highest quality, there 
are a few top-notchers 
among them which are es¬ 
pecially desirable. Among 
the green pods these are 
flat-podded Bountiful and 
round-pod Full Measure. 
Other Beans and Beets 
Bountiful is absolutely 
in a class of its own when 
it comes to earliness, pro¬ 
lificness and long season of 
bearing combined with an 
This is saying much, with six 
or eight other sorts of similar nature clamoring for our atten¬ 
tion. And yet, I have seen only one kind so far that will yield 
from twenty to thirty quarts of pods from one 15' row in the 
course of a season, and that is Bountiful. It yields its first 
four quarts of pods per row in fifty-six days from date of 
planting. Full Measure may be called the round-podded com¬ 
panion to Bountiful, though it is a few days later and its sea¬ 
son of bearing is shorter. 
The wax-podded bush beans offer two worthy mates, similar 
in all good points to the above pair, in Burpee’s New Kidney 
Wax and Brittle Wax. The latter is round-podded while New 
Kidney Wax is flat-podded and also more prolific, which seems 
to be the rule with the flat-podded sorts when the two classes 
are compared. New Kidney Wax closely rivals Bountiful in 
season of maturity, and Brittle Wax is almost as early, though 
not quite as free bearing. 
Since beans are such an important crop in most home gar¬ 
dens, a few definite suggestions as to how to raise big crops 
of fine pods may be in order. In the first place, plant your 
beans in rows 2 y 2 ' apart, dropping the seeds 4" apart in the 
row. When young plants appear above ground, start to hoe 
them. Later on, hill slightly to support the bushes and hoe, 
hoe, hoe. No other vegetable I know, with the possible ex¬ 
ception of tomatoes, appreciates frequent and thorough cul¬ 
tivation as much as do beans. Do not pick pods while the 
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In from 100 ’to 110 days from 
sowing seven-pound heads of 
Copenhagen Market develop 
Prizetaker onions, if they are 
sown early in April, should 
produce by mid-August 
